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THE NUMBER OF people are changing their working arrangements – either as a precaution or a drill – is growing because of concern over the novel coronavirus.
However, there are some grey areas of legislation, something which trade unions are seeking to be clarified and the Department of Social Protection has done its best to explain.
We sat down with solicitor Richard Grogan, an employment law specialist, to answer some of your questions.
Watch the video above for our full report, and check here for the HSE’s latest medical advice.
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@Lee King Buckett: you have no idea, none. You say all is rosy in the garden for the women in your family, they might well agree with you, but ask them would they make eye contact with a man on a bus at night or walk alone on a dark night in a park. Ask them …..
@Deborah Blacoe: Both my mother and my wife want to know if the man in the Bus is good looking or not?
Can’t get hold of my sister I’m afraid but I’ll ask her tomorrow.
@Lee King Buckett: that’s hilarious. Be happy in your smugness.
@Deborah Blacoe: That was their genuine answer – as mentioned, they don’t tend to live their lives in constant fear, they have a bright outlook, a good sense of humor and feel generally happy and secure in life.
I’m not doubting that people have bad experiences (I myself was a victim of a serious and unprovoked knife attack) but the majority of people don’t extrapolate that out to mean or insinuate that half of the earth’s population are just lurking and waiting for an opportunity to cause harm.
@Deborah Blacoe: Oh, and by the way, they both thought the original comments were utterly OTT and dramatic and both rolled their eyes up when I read them out.
@Lee King Buckett: the original poster sounded genuine to me. The fact that you felt she was OTT is your prerogative, but that doesn’t mean you are right.
@Lee King Buckett: you sound like a proper count
I can totally understand their fears… But it’s not only women afraid out alone
Who would blame them, I be concerned about my wife walking alone, just recently in a late bar a guy kept trying to chat her up and even after she had told him numerous times that she wasn’t interested he kept annoying her, I eventually told him to get lost and he came back and groped her behind only the bouncers grabbed him I would have ended up been arrested
@Mark Dawson: oh god Mark, that’s awful. I hope you’re both ok.
@Mark Dawson: That’s awful, nice way to have your night ruined. And that was with you there with her! I know plenty of women who no longer go out to bars etc due to previously being harassed by men.
I had the horrible experience of being surrounded by a gang of teens and verbally abused and threatened in my local park while picking up litter last year. Now afraid to go to that park or go anywhere alone. Confidence destroyed. And they were not grown men, just in training to abuse future generations of women. Ps I am in my 60s.
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